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March 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Goals

There are a number of things out there that you can do. But only some you can do well. And only some you can spend the time to learn and grow at. And only very few can you achieve. You’ll be drawn into many areas over your career as people think you are “great” and “built to do this” but if it clashes with your end goals, with where you want to be in the end. All it will do is anger you and leave you frustrated. Take the time, to find what it is, you really want to do.

March 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Two Questions To Always Be Asking

In case you are confused about what you are working on or the direction you are headed in there are two questions you should always be asking of yourself and your team. What is the problem we are trying to solve? How does the solution benefit the customer? If you are always answering those questions with the customers interests in your mind, you are on the right path. Any missteps you make in between will be forgiven if you’re always, always clear on your direction formulating around those two questions.

March 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Strongest Supporter

Will always be your customer. If you’re not approaching each project with them as a partnership, then you will only ever get half of the value from it could potentially be. Don’t hide from them. Don’t keep them out of the loop. Don’t gang up on them to have a vote. Bring them onto the team. Invite them to the discussions. Move the project forward faster with them, then without them. They’re waiting.

March 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where are you most Creative?

I’ve become enamoured with this question after having it been asked of me. Here’s the depressing part, I know the place per se, but can’t get there all the time (I can get there 15% out of the year, but that might even be a lot). So where do I go from here? Well now that’s the fun part as I try to piece that together and find that magical place. But one piece of odd creativity I have found in recent weeks is that I am thoroughly pumped up when I play very loud metal music while trying to

March 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

Leveling Up

How do you get better if the people ahead of you don’t want to share their tips and tricks or even compete against you? How do you know where you stand if you never have a yardstick to measure yourself against? If all you have are your own accomplishments? You have yourself, you have your accomplishments and you have what’s next on your growth path. You don’t need to try racing against a Formula F1 Driver to see how you’d compare in your car (probably not that well) but you could just as easily draw the line of comparison between